Fall 2010

Joshua Dubler, Assistant Professor of Religion, University of Rochester

Using as its point of departure an off-the-cuff remark by David
Letterman about his “Midwestern Lutheran guilt,” Josh Dubler’s
paper explored emergent American discourses that tether putatively
particular species of guilt to different ethnic identities.
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Daniel Lee (‘10-‘11), Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley

Daniel Lee’s talk investigated the rule of imprescriptibility in the
analysis of sovereignty in early modern political thought: the
norm that legal rights of sovereignty (jura majestatis) cannot be
acquired by private actors simply on grounds of desuetude.
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Dr. Sun argued that the three interrelated processes have to
be explained by the interaction between the nature of popular
religion and the changing structural conditions of China’s rural
society, which include, above all, the removal of lineage associations
as the dominant power-holder and the outmigration of rural
residents.
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Julilly Kohler-Hausmann traced how discrediting the rehabilitative
ideal eventually led to the ascendancy of mandatory sentencing
regimes, the phenomenal growth in carceral institutions, and a
particular notion of appropriate state functions and character
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